"In 2007 I spent six months living and working in Lahore, Pakistan, teaching drawing and studying miniature painting at Beaconhouse National University. Over the last year these experiences have inspired a series of prints and paintings."

The Joshua McClelland Print Room Melbourne is pleased to invite you to the opening of

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The exhibition will be opened by Ayesha Bux, Honourary Consul for Pakistan on Tuesday October 13 from 5.30 to 7.30 pm. The exhibition continues until October 30.

29 September, 2009

Art Almanac is the essential guide to Australia's art galleries - a monthly magazine listing the exhibition schedules of over 550 art galleries throughout Australia, packaged in an easy-to-use format, supported by gallery maps, an artist index, and profiles of current art exhibitions. Melbourne art galleries and their September exhibition schedules are listed below,

Rita Angus (1908-70) is one of New Zealand’s most significant artists. A pioneer of modern painting in this country, she created some of our most memorable and best-loved images.

To honour the centenary of her birth, Te Papa presents this major exhibition, which is now touring to Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland. It includes sketchbooks, studies and unfinished works, some of which have never been seen in public before.

28 September, 2009

Welcome to CHArt's web site. CHArt was established in 1985 by art and design historians who happened also to be computer enthusiasts. Initially a forum for the exchange of ideas between people who were using computers in their research, the largely academic membership was soon augmented by members from museums and art galleries, as well as individuals involved in the management of the visual and textual archives and libraries relevant to the subject.

CHArt is a society open to all who have an interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design. We hold an annual conference and publish the conference proceedings, run an email discussion list and keep in contact with our members through a newsletter. CHArt also sponsors the World Wide Web Virtual Library for History of Art. You will find further details of all our publications and activities on this web site.

This exhibition showcases many of the rare, beautiful and historically significant books held in the Library’s collections. Located in the galleries overlooking the magnificent La Trobe Reading Room, this exhibition celebrates the unique place of books in our hearts and minds.

Mirror of the World: Books & Ideas provides an overview of the history of book production, design and illustration, with a display of fine examples from the Library's collections dating from the Middle Ages to the present day. The title of the exhibition is taken from William Caxton’s Myrrour of the Worlde (1490), one of the first illustrated books published in England.

These recordings complement the material in the exhibition. Using voice, sound effects and music, the Mirror of the World audio dramatisations bring some of the key figures in the history of books to life.

The Independent Type: Books and Writing in Victoria is a free exhibition that celebrates Victoria's rich and diverse written culture, highlighting the stories, the voices and the spirit of independence that have made our literature unique.

Get more out of your visit to the The Independent Type exhibition by taking our audio tour, narrated by Ramona Koval, host of ABC Radio National's The Book Show.

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The State Library of Victoria is on the corner of Swanston and La Trobe Streets at the northern edge of Melbourne's central business district.

CCP : The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice.

The CCP Documentary Photography Award is a biennial showcase of contemporary Australian documentary photography. Since the inaugural exhibition in 1997, this event has grown in profile and significance. It represents a unique, national initiative in support of documentary photography, providing a rare opportunity to assess the themes, styles and ideas that characterise this fascinating genre. This year's exhibition demonstrates the breadth of contemporary approaches to documentary practice from traditional black and white narratives through to vibrant colour recordings all of which have been achieved without digital manipulation. Themes range from Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires through to ocean swim racing and portraits of people having their haircut.

What are the considerations for artists when editioning paper or screen-based work? What underpins market confidence in editioning practices? This panel of experts from the commercial, education and public gallery sectors will explore the issues surrounding the editioning of photography and video art. Speakers will address principles, practices and problems within the arenas of analogue and digital media drawing upon local and international experience.http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series.php

This year the MCA’s popular Primavera series comes of age as the annual exhibition celebrates its 18th anniversary. With a reputation for uncovering new talent in the visual arts, Primavera provides valuable exposure for emerging artists aged 35 years and under.Primavera 2009 guest-curator Jeff Khan has selected nine of today’s most exciting young contemporary artists from across the country to explore the relationship between art and the viewer. Discover highly experiential works that engage you through humour, emotion, performance and immersive experiences both inside and outside the galleries.

============Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art10 September - 11 November 2009

Making It New celebrates contemporary art in Australia today. Presenting a diverse selection of works by 18 established artists, the exhibition spans painting, installation, video, sculpture and new media. The exhibition is the fourth in the MCA’s biennial exhibition series which focuses on contemporary Australian art practice. Previous exhibitions were Meridian (2003), Interesting Times (2005) and Cross Currents (2007). This year, MCA curator Glenn Barkley has selected artists whose work is anchored in a sense of tradition and ongoing engagement with political and social worlds. These artists are also pivotal figures within their own communities—whether they be social, historical, cultural or artistic—as teachers, supporters and advocates.

26 September, 2009

=======Melbourne Stencil Festival Yarra Sculpture GalleryMelbourne Stencil Festival returns bigger and better this year across two venues: Yarra Sculpture Gallery and The Collingwood Underground. Expect a broad range of established and emerging artists producing exciting new works – go to stencilfestival.com for program details.

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Street Visions: Homeless young people tell their own story Young people who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing homelessness photograph their world, based on the theme ‘where the heart is. Through their eyes we experience homelessness, and the homeless service system. Through their images we gain a deeper understanding of their reality. Presented by Frontyard Youth Services and Melbourne Citymission in association with Melbourne Stencil Festival 2009.

==========FamousWhenDead Gallery 207 Victoria St West MelbourneUrban Art Agenda #3: International Street Art Exhibition. Inspired by New York graffiti of the 1980s, stencil art is a form of street art, or urban art as it is often called, which has sprung up all over the globe in the last two decades. Now a respected art movement and refined art-form, it has long moved off the streets and into galleries and art spaces.

Urban Art Agenda #3 brings together some of the most prolific stencil artists from around the world in an unique showcase.

23 September, 2009

ACCA The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery. ACCA is a Kunsthalle. It is the only major public art gallery in Australia focused on commissioning rather than collecting.http://www.accaonline.org.au/

Current exhibition of works by artist David Noonan, and Swedish artist Johanna Billing and Rosslynd Piggott. till 27th Sept.

from 9th Oct "The Dwelling"9 October 2009– 29 November 2009

International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange. Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.

The 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award is the final exhibition in the series of triennials established by Joan and Peter Clemenger through a generous gift to the NGV in 1991. Spanning nearly twenty years, the Award has focused the public’s attention on the achievements of a diverse range of distinguished Australian artists.

Long Distance Vision:Three Australian Photographers28 August – 21 February 2010

This exhibition will consider the work of three contemporary Australian photographers Christine Godden, Max Pam and Matthew Sleeth, who have photographed not only aspects of the everyday at home but venture forth in the world with the delighted, but not uncritical, eyes of the traveller.

Hosting the sixth IMPACT conference will be both a privilege and a pleasure, having now been held in five countries across two continents. Following its past success, we welcome the return of IMPACT to Bristol, marking 10 years since the first conference was hosted here in 1999. What began as a ‘one off’ event has become a bi-annual feature in the printmaking calendar, bringing together hundreds of delegates from around the world....

12 September, 2009

I've just repaired the hitcounters on both sites. They were both reset to 12,000 for some reason, possibly trolls. Fortunately I monitor these figures so it was a simple matter to estimate the current count from daily usage (around 700 hits per day) and the last reading.

10th Biennale de Lyon

From 16 September 2009 to 3 January 2010

Curator Hou Hanru

Artistic curatorThierry Raspail

Production managerThierry Prat

We are living in the society of the spectacle. In spite of its alienating effects on our life and social relationships, it’s one of the very fundamental conditions of our existence. We perceive the world and communicate with each other through the spectacle – a system of image production and representation dominated by the logic of market capitalism which tends to “develop” our faculties of perception, imagination and reflection towards a “one dimensional model” formatted by the language of consumerist ideology. This is also the very contemporary condition of our self-identification and social order “guaranteed” by the established power system. As a main typology of artistic and cultural events of our time, biennials of contemporary art are no doubt an ultimate form of expression of such a tendency...

This September the Hayward Gallery Project Space presents an exhibition of works by the Uruguayan artist Martin Sastre. This will be his first exhibition in a major UK institution.

Sastre's videos combine a love of trashy pop culture with witty meditations on global politics. He is fascinated by the notion of the cover version or remake, and describes his work as existing 'on the frontier between reality and fiction'.

In the animated video KIM X LIZ (2008), viewers see the flowering of an unexpected love affair between Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, who is a well-known fan of Taylor's. Sastre is fascinated by these two figures, who he sees not only as real people but also fictional characters created by the desires of societies driven by the cult of celebrity and the cult of personality.

Making its debut at the Hayward Gallery Project Space is Sastre's latest work, Ride with Obama (2009). Continuing Sastre's enquiry into impersonations and the rewriting and re-depiction of reality, the film shows the artist visiting a Madrid theme park in the company of a man who bears an uncanny resemblance to President Barack Obama. Here the two men from the Americas explore the rides and inhabit the theme park, which represents a place in Europe where artifice dominates and authenticity has slipped out of sight.

04 September, 2009

Renew Newcastle has been established to find short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle's CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.

Renew Newcastle aims to find artists, cultural projects and community groups to use and maintain these buildings until they become commercially viable or are redeveloped. Renew Newcastle is not set up to manage long term uses, own properties or permanently develop sites but to generate activity in buildings until that future long term activity happens.

Renew Newcastle was founded to help solve the problem of Newcastle's empty CBD. While the long term prospects for the redevelopment of Newcastle's CBD are good, in the meantime many sites are boarded up, falling apart, vandalised or decaying because they are is no short term for use them and no one taking responsibility for them.

Renew Newcastle has been set up to clean up these buildings and get the city active and used again.

Renew Newcastle is a low budget community driven initiative. We rely on the support and goodwill of the Newcastle Community and our supporters across Australia and around the world for our project to succeed. We welcome any support from the moral to the practical!

There are four key ways in which you can support Renew Newcastle.

If you are an artist, creative type or a community group you can Propose a project to Renew Newcastle. We are always keen to hear from people with strong ideas that will bring life and activity back to the Newcastle CBD.

If you are a property owner or are able to help us get access to transitional and vacant properties then we encourage you to Propose a Property.

Renew Newcastle relies largely on the support of many volunteers. If you want to lend us a hand then please visit our Volunteering page.

03 September, 2009

Its a continuation of the original Print Australia group on Yahoo groups that was founded in 1999 (see Lyrebyrd). Its open to all artists, especially those in Australia, seeking to network and collaborate with other artists.